At 6:44 -0400 8/12/00, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
>> Let me try and say this kindly (since after it is
>> pointed out several hundred times it gets quite
>> frustrating). If you don't see the processing
>> requirements then you have *no* understanding of how
>> routing works.
>
>You need not go to great pains to be "kind" about it. This is a pretty
>standard preamble to a post that essentially means "I disagree."
>
>> The *first* function is to calculate that forwarding
>> table used above. This is the place that processing
>> power is needed. On busy routers this calculation can
>> be necessary hundreds of times a second. The more
>> routes the larger the process of recalculating the
>> forwarding table when a change *anywhere* in the
>> topology occurs.
>
>I wonder how human beings manage to route their cars from one point to
>another, given how much more slowly they process things than do routers.
Because their cars move *much* slower than packets.
